Bag-holder.



F. G. VONDERAHE, Jn.

BAG HOLDER.

- APPLIOATION FILED Hus. 2a, 1910.

Patented Nov. 1,1910.

FREDERICK C. VONDERAHE, JR., OF OREGON CITY, OREGON.

BAG-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 1, 1910.

Application filed February 23, 1910. Serial No. 545,459.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK G. VoN- DERAHE, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Oregon City, in the county of Clackamas and State of Oregon, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bag-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for holding grain bags and the like while being filled.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple, practical bag or sack holder in which the mouth of the bag will be held open, and by which the bag will be so supported as to allow the bag to have a certain up and down movement while the bag is being filled, the bag being raised off the floor or ground when empty and gradually settling as it is filled.

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, having reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a plan view.

A represents a bracket of suitable size, shape and material, here shown as a metal plate adapted to be secured to a wall, post or scale support, or the like, represented at 2. For the purpose of securing the bracket to the post 2, the former is lengthwise slotted, as at 3, with the slots enlarged at the lower end to adapt them to engage hooks or screws 4: which will enable the device to be easily put up in place when needed.

5 and 6 represent a pair of hinges, journaled one above the other to bracket A, as shown respectively at 7 8. Each of these hinges 5, 6 is shown in the form of a. clevis or bent meta-J rod with its outer ends inturned to engage in perforations or seats in a plate 9, which latter carries the spring bag-supporting arms 10. The top of the bracket A is bent horizontally, as shown at 11, to form a stop to the upward movement of the plate 9, and also to provide an anchorage for one end of a coil spring 12, which latter has its other end suitably connected to the plate 9. The spring 12 acts to hold the plate 9,'arms 10, and bag 13 in uppermost position, and the tension of this spring is such that as the bag is gradually filled the latter will be allowed to sink quietly and gradually until its bottom rests on the floor or platform and sufiiciently taut until filled.

The bag is gripped or released by expanding or contracting the spring arms 10 by suitable means, as the eccentric lever 15, pivoted to one arm and having an adjustable connecting link 16 with the other arm, the ends of the arms having upwardly turned flanges 17 operating to engage and spread the mouth of the sack. The adjustment for the link, 16, may be effected by providing said link with a series of holes, 16, with either of which engages a pin or like part, 16', adapted to bear against the outside of the spring arm, 10. When the filled bag is released by throwing lever 15 to contract the arms 10, the sack holding arms will automatically be raised, freeing them from and lifting them clear of the sack.

By hanging the plate 9 and the bag holding means on the double clevis hinges 5, 6, the plate 9 and bag always move in approximate parallelism, and at approximately the same distance from the post 2, or equivalent support. Also by using the hinge members 5, 6, each with its two rigid arms engaging opposite sides of the plate 9, the latter and the bag are prevented from swinging sidewise and consequently the bag always moves in a vertical plane. Also the mouth of the bag is always substantially level and open. Also by this vertical spring hanging arrangement the invention becomes adapted to a great variation in length of the bags without any need of a change in the position of the bracket A on its support, since in practice the distance or space of downward and upward movement is nearly twice the length of the clevis hinges.

The bag in filling settles smoothly and gradually, as there are no jerky or binding movements of the parts, and the operator is able to shake down the contents of the bag while the latter is filling, the spring 12 making this action very easy. There is no obstruction over or above the bag holding arms to interfere with the dumping of the bushel measure, bucket or grain shovel. The arm connecting link 16 may have a downwardly projecting hook portion 14 adapted to grip one side of the sack to further spread the opening when filling.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters- Patent, is:

l. A bag holder having normally exholding the bag panded resilient means for supporting a bag, and means for supporting this holder at a normally elevated position and allowin the holder gradually to sink as the bag is filled,

5 said means including upper and lower swinging members to each of which the bag supporting means is connected.

2. The combination of a pair of suitably supported upper and lower hinge members, a plate hingedly connected to each of said hinge members, a spring acting to move said plate normally upwardly, and bag holding means carried by the plate.

3. The combination of a bracket, a pair of upper and lower clevis hinges hinged to the bracket, a plate carried by the hinges, a spring carried by the bracket and acting to move the plate and olevises normally upward, and bag holding means on the plate.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERICK 0. VONDERAHE, JR.

\Vitnesses:

GILBERT L. HEDGES, NETTIE M. KRUsE. 

